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The consoles were manufactured according to specifications created by The 3DO Company which were originally designed at the New Technology Group (which later became part of the 3DO Company) by Dave Needle and RJ Mical . The consoles had very advanced hardware features at the time: an ARM60 32-bit RISC CPU, two custom video co-processors, a custom 16-bit DSP and a custom math coprocessor. They also featured 2 megabytes of DRAM, 1 megabyte of VRAM, and a double speed CD-ROM drive for main storage. Up to 8 controllers could be daisy-chained on the system at once. In addition to special 3DO software, the system was able to play audio CDsCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a st (including support for CD+G) and view Photo CD s. However, many titles that did not utilitze the console's full potential, a high price (roughly US$800 at release), and the inability of the console market to support multiple consoles put it in an early grave.
The 3DO software library really did exhibit some of the worst aspects of home video games at the time, even if a few gems were to be found. This was the dawn of CD-ROM gaming, so cutscenes of pixelated video footage dominated many titles at the expense of good gameplay. The best titles were usually ports of games from other systems--including MystMyst is a graphic adventure computer game created by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. It was developed by Cyan, Inc. a Spokane, Washington based studio, and published and distributed by Broderbund. The Millers began working on Myst in 1991 and released, Out of This WorldOut of This World can refer to: Out of This World the American title for the video game Another World the television series Out of This World a fantasy novel by Lawrence Watt-Evans., and Star Control II. Other notable titles include Need For Speed, Cannon FodderMega Drive) Cannon Fodder was a short run of war video games developed by Sensible Software, a mix of both real-time strategy and action games. Only two games in the series were released, but spawned through most active systems at the time of the release., Slayer and Killing Time
In addition to the consoles, a 3DO Blaster ISA peripheral card for PCs which offered all the features of the home console was manufactured by Creative Technology.
The 3DO Company also designed a next-generation console called the M2, which was to use a PowerPC 602 processor, but the company abandoned the console business and sold the technology to Matsushita who never brought the system to the market.
This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is used under the GFDL.
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